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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th,
1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abandoned by his father and the
later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of
John Allan,...
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th,
1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abandoned by his father and the
later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of
John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan
Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia, bu was
equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His
stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and
Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836, he married his cousin,
Virginia, but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry,
lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentatio
with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he
virtually invented with the publication of "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue" (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts,
until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem's instant
popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his
persona situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and
the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to
his untimely and premature decline. In 1849, he was found sick,
injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to
hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on
October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of
the most original writers in the history of American letters - a
genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically
misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire
enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience
in Europe, and became not onl an enormous influence on modern
French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as
Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne....